Right Sizing Integrity Digs with Desktop and Field Validation
Key Takeaways Integrity digs are essential for pipeline safety, but unnecessary digs can divert time and resources away from other integrity initiatives ILI Tools are incredible, but not infallible — using an experienced consultant to review tool data helps to ensure only injurious features are inspected and addressed Desktop validation is a time intensive step […]
Moving RNG to Market with Natural Gas Expertise
Project Impact The collaboration empowered the client to deliver specification-compliant RNG to a gas utility buyer, despite limited resources and understanding of the natural gas market and regulatory environment The natural gas pipeline system expertise applied to the renewable natural gas interconnect station resulted in a fully functional facility that is analyzing, measuring, and regulating […]
Solution Brief – Out of the Box Engineering Solution Saves Months of Time
A unique solution saved months of time on this in-service inspection. Problem We received several broken flanges from a client in Redwater, Alberta that had failed during bolting/torqueing. The flanges were expected to be made of “ductile iron” (DI), but they turned out to be made of grey cast iron (with inferior mechanical properties). Metallographic […]
Solution Brief – Emergency Engineering Expertise Restores Critical Asset to Operation
Problem During a turnaround at a gas plant, pressure testing was performed on a sulphur condenser’s (the “vessel”) shell side. The vessel was accidentally overpressured to 5.3 times its MAWP (maximum allowable working pressure). A new vessel would have cost over a million dollars and would have taken over 6 months to be built. Acuren […]
Underside of Bridge Emergency Water Main Repair
There are two 30 inch diameter ¼” wall thickness steel water mains, which run along the underside of the bridge over a river way, that provide major water distribution to the community. The mains were installed in 1961 and suffered leakage at support guide attachments due to external corrosion. The leak locations were difficult to […]
Vast Network To Complete Extensive Project On Time and Budget
Interstate Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Project AUT & RT MILES OF PIPE PIPE DIAMETER (INCHES) TECHNIQUES PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES TEI Analytical Services, Acuren’s sister company, late last year completed a transmission pipeline project that covered more than 250 miles of 36” pipe. The 10-month Ohio and Michigan pipeline construction project included Automated Ultrasonic Testing (AUT) and […]
Integrated Solutions
Acuren Safely Completed a Flare Tip Replacement & Coatings Project in Ohio The four-week project incorporated Acuren’s Mechanical, Engineering, and Rope Access Industrial Services to replace an existing flare tip at a refinery, including weld repairs and coatings. The project utilized rope access to remove the existing flare tip and install a new one, weld […]
Acuren Tank Solution Saves Client 60 Outage Days and Over $500,000
Summary This client is a multidisciplinary professional services firm that provides airport fuel consortium administration, fuel infrastructure project and construction management for aviation fuel and ground fuel facilities at major airports in North America. Acuren has been a primary API service provider for them across Canada, including supporting a major 2016 inspection. Acuren engineers, working […]
Tank Refurbishment Project Saves Client Over $100,000
Summary This large refining customer is a crude oil refinery located in North America. Acuren has been the primary NDT, inspection and materials engineering service provider to them since 2010, including acting in a key role as technical and quality control support for a recent $100M tank farm upgrade. Acuren’s ability to offer API 653 […]
Monthly Maintenance Contract Pays Dividends
Summary Irving Wallboard is a highly automated, 300,000 square foot manufacturing facility that provides a broad range of gypsum wallboard products for use in the construction industry. This Saint John facility is one of the newest and most modern wallboard manufacturing facilities in North America. Acuren provides monthly Condition Based Monitoring services, whereby CBM Specialists […]